Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainSaint-Louis sees more crime per resident than four in five Canadian towns
From 2023 to 2025, crime the police covering Saint-Louis reported put it at C− for safety. By 2025 the index had climbed to 124.3, up from 111.1 in 2023. Behind the grade sit 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people a year, where the comparison is 12.0 and 31.2 in the typical Canadian town of 2,500+. Split in two, the index gives 149.1 for violence and 95.9 for everything else (normally 86.4 and 62.8).
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Crime severity, crime rate and incident counts: one figure for all of the Richibucto detachment area.
What stands out about safety in Saint-Louis
Mischief: high for a town its size
Saint-Louis records 10.5 incidents of mischief per 1,000 residents a year, against 4.2 in the typical town among Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more. By type ↓
Over the New Brunswick norm
Within New Brunswick, the median town comes to 72.8 on the index, against 110.5 in Saint-Louis. Towns its size ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Saint-Louis’s C− for safety
How sure: Not as firm as most grades. Its figures come from the nearest detachment, 19 km off, which covers its own area rather than Saint-Louis.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Crime in Saint-Louis, type by type
Against the typical town its size, Saint-Louis runs highest on mischief (10.5 per 1,000 against 4.2), motor vehicle theft (4.7 per 1,000 against 2.4) and break and enter (4.4 per 1,000 against 2.5). Theft under $5,000 sits below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 0.3 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 6 | 0.4 | 45% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 10 | 0.7 | 97% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 4 | 0.3 | — |
| Robbery | 0.7 | 0.05 | — |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 2 | 0.1 | — |
| Other violent violations | 5 | 0.4 | 20% |
| Breaking and entering | 62 | 4.4 | 11% |
| Possession of stolen property | 29 | 2.1 | 31% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 65.7 | 4.7 | 7% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 11.7 | 0.8 | 3% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 61.7 | 4.4 | 12% |
| Mischief | 146.3 | 10.5 | 7% |
| Weapons violations | 5.7 | 0.4 | 58% |
| Administration of justice violations | 61.7 | 4.4 | 63% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 34 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Drug violations | 17 | 1.2 | 18% |
| Impaired driving | 49 | 3.5 | 48% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 3 | 0.2 | — |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
Saint-Louis, year by year
Crime Severity Index
Its most recent year, 2025, was also its heaviest (124.3); the lightest was 2024 (95.9). The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 2,500+, runs from 70.6 in 2023 to 62.9 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Saint-Louis | Typical town of 2,500+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 124.3 | 62.9 |
| 2024 | 95.9 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 111.1 | 70.6 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Saint-Louis, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 2,500+.
The detachment nearest Saint-Louis, 14,200 residents: around 340 violent incidents a year, 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Property crime adds about 470 a year and other violations 300 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Crime in the places around Saint-Louis
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Louis | 1,830 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Louis de Kent | 1,026 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Saint-Charles | 2,189 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto | 1,745 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Rexton | 1,059 | 110.5 | 149.1 | C− |
| Richibucto 15 | 2,126 | — | — | — |
Neighbours policed by the same service carry the same figure, so the 4 of them aren’t set against it.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Cleared, not convicted. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- What the index measures. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- 100 is Canada in 2006. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
Questions about safety in Saint-Louis
Is Saint-Louis safe?
Saint-Louis’s Crime Severity Index is 110.5 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 24.4 violent incidents and 34.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more is 67.2.
What is the most common crime in Saint-Louis?
The three biggest groups are other Criminal Code offences at 13, mischief at 10.5 and assault at 10, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Saint-Louis?
It has: 111.1 in 2023 became 124.3 by 2025, a rise of 12%.
How much of Saint-Louis’s crime do police solve?
Counting serious crimes for more, 33% end in a charge or are otherwise solved (34% for the typical Canadian town of 2,500+); split up, that is 61% of violent and 15% of non-violent crime.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Saint-Louis and other places, so the figures are shared.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).